Washington Post staffers take swipes at bosses as they announce departure from battled paper

This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. ©2026 FOX News Network, LLC. All rights reserved. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Market data provided by Factset. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. Legal Statement. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by LSEG. Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier discusses the Washington Post announcing sweeping layoffs and the elimination of their sports department on ‘Special Report.’ Two Washington Post staffers took parting shots at the paper as they announced their exits for a different outlet. NOTUS (News of the United States), the digital news outlet established in 2023 by the non-profit Allbritton Journalism Institute, announced in a staff memo Monday that nine journalists were joining its newsroom, seven of whom had worked at the Post. Dana Milbank, who had been a columnist at the Post for 26 years, released a lengthy statement praising NOTUS publisher Robert Allbritton, the son of the late financier and media mogul Joe Allbritton who previously co-founded Politico, while appearing to swipe The Post's billionaire owner Jeff Bezos. "It feels wonderful to alig